LAHORE: Customs Investigations and Prosecution (I&P) has initiated probe and conducted raids after registering FIRs against accused parties, including M/s Pak Afreedi Goods Transport Adda and M/s Qadri Hajvery Goods on the charges of handling contraband items.
Sources told Customs Today that Customs Intelligence, after registering FIRs against the accused parties, has started raids at the godown of M/s Qadri Hajvery to arrest the culprits.
Sources said that on the pointation of Hajvery Goods Forwarding Agency, the customs team seized a huge quantity of foreign origin cigarettes worth Rs 10 million. In the month of April, the mobile squad had seized 560 mobile phones of Samsung brands worth Rs 8.4 million.
An FIR was also lodged against the culprits. In the month of May the ASO staff raided the premises of Ghulab Khan and recovered huge quantity of smuggled/non duty paid Split Inverter air conditioners and washing machines of LG brand valuing Rs9 million and a criminal case was also registered against the accused persons. Similarly, ASO staff had recovered foreign origin curtain cloth having weight 6555 kilograms from M/s Pak Afreedi Goods Transport Adda worth Rs4 million.
Likewise, two narcotics cases were also reported by Customs Preventive staff posted at GPO wherein cocaine and marijuana was seized from an incoming parcels and FIRs have been lodged accordingly.
The sources said that the Customs I&P police has raided on the given addresses to which the parcels were addressed, however, no arrests have been made but investigations are still on.
On the other hand the sources said that investigations have also been started in the two cases Pak Afreedi Goods Transport Adda and Hajvery Goods Forwarding Agency.
